First official look at The Sims 4 confirmed for gamescom, taking the stage August 21

Maxis and Electronic Arts have just confirmed via Twitter that we'll get our first real look at The Sims 4 at gamescom, which starts on August 21. Announced in early May, Maxis went out of its way to assure fans that The Sims 4 would be an entirely single-player, entirely offline experience. Keep in mind the announcement came in the midst of the controversy over SimCity. Hooray for the return of that little green diamond!

If you recall from the original announcement post, the date of gamescom (August 21-24) lines up pretty well with a scheduled fan event during the same time period. Fansites were invited to a special event to check out The Sims 4 starting three weeks into August. If things work out right, we'll be getting impressions from a ton of fansites as well as the greater media all at the same time.

Mark late August on your calendar, we'll be buried in more The Sims 4 news than we can handle soon enough.

They told us to wait until June 18th so they could tell us to wait until August?

*grins* That describes the majority of press releases that I get in alerts. There's always the pre-preview announcement, to get hype rolling, it seems.

Not... sure how I feel about a Sims 4. I've played a bit with Sims 3 and I've not really enjoyed the online side of that game, so I'm really withholding my thoughts given Maxis' record with online stuff. Not a big fan of the series as a whole anyways.

They told us to wait until June 18th so they could tell us to wait until August?

Taken out of context I would have thought this would be a Squeenix game. Also please don't suck Sims 4, but I'm just fooling myself if I choose to think that way. All I hope is that the sims don't look anything like in those teasers, who the hell wants cartoonish sims? (sims 3 was already too cartoonish).

They told us to wait until June 18th so they could tell us to wait until August?

Taken out of context I would have thought this would be a Squeenix game. Also please don't suck Sims 4, but I'm just fooling myself if I choose to think that way. All I hope is that the sims don't look anything like in those teasers, who the hell wants cartoonish sims? (sims 3 was already too cartoonish).

I dunno, there is something to be said for retaining the idea that it is not real as much as possible. I might even be more uncomfortable playing with a bunch of Sims who look much more like real flesh and blood people.

... although I hope they take advantage of the graphics possible nowadays a bit more when making the characters, sure.

With all the rumors circulating, all I'm hoping for is a great game on The Sims 4, not just a gimmick to lure people. We all waited for a much upgraded and realistic Sims game, hoping that this would be it. For more exclusive updates about the Sims 4, this site will keep you posted: http://www.thesims-4.net/the-sims-4-release-date-information/